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House of J wrote:Well, so far reviewers are more forgiving than we have been so far.

I did come across one bit of info I didn't put together at first. Something was bugging me about the priest's name, apparently that is actually Rocky Davis from Challengers of the Unknown.

Yep, that was set up by Brad Meltzer in that Last Will and Testament one-shot.

I actually thought this was pretty good, there was a lot of set-up, but I felt the characters were strong, and the tone was different enough to the rest of the DCU that it was suitably weird, I love the idea of the DP working out of Oolong Island too, that's genius.

I do like them though, they are one of those cool silver-age DC concepts that are really fun and inventive, yet don't really fit into the Modern DCU, much like Doom Patrol actually, the kind of wild madness the Arnold Drakes, Jack Kirbys, Robert Kanighers and Bob Haneys could get away with don't really work in the current climate of Rapes and Genocides, unless you go for comedy like the Metal Men back-up, Giffen's cynical take is the best we can get really.

But seriously, all that mad shit, the Sea Devils, Cave Carson, it's all awesome.

Punchy wrote:I do like them though, they are one of those cool silver-age DC concepts that are really fun and inventive, yet don't really fit into the Modern DCU, much like Doom Patrol actually, the kind of wild madness the Arnold Drakes, Jack Kirbys, Robert Kanighers and Bob Haneys could get away with don't really work in the current climate of Rapes and Genocides, unless you go for comedy like the Metal Men back-up, Giffen's cynical take is the best we can get really.

But seriously, all that mad shit, the Sea Devils, Cave Carson, it's all awesome.

House of J wrote:Well, not really. This is a lot like Byrne's DP redux.

Hell, or Paul Kupperberg's even. My point is this is much more akin to the less successful runs than the more successful, or even critically acclaimed ones.

I don't think you can call anything Byrne does serious, and Kupperberg's was an all-new cast except for Robotman right? The same for Arcudi's run, we haven't seen Negative Man or Elasti-Girl in these kinds of stories.

This is new territory for the Doom Patrol and I liked it, it has a different feel than anything else in the DCU right now, and I like that, the Marvel superhero universe has been a lot more varied in tone for the last few years, with almost crime books stood next to comedies, or to science-fiction, and Doom Patrol stands out to me from the rest of the DCU, which all shares the same morose tone, this is a bit more quirky, a bit more edgy.

But then I'm not a fan of the Doom Patrol, not read anything previously.

Punchy wrote:I don't think you can call anything Byrne does serious, and Kupperberg's was an all-new cast except for Robotman right? The same for Arcudi's run, we haven't seen Negative Man or Elasti-Girl in these kinds of stories.

This is new territory for the Doom Patrol and I liked it, it has a different feel than anything else in the DCU right now, and I like that, the Marvel superhero universe has been a lot more varied in tone for the last few years, with almost crime books stood next to comedies, or to science-fiction, and Doom Patrol stands out to me from the rest of the DCU, which all shares the same morose tone, this is a bit more quirky, a bit more edgy.

But then I'm not a fan of the Doom Patrol, not read anything previously.

Actually, we saw BOTH Negative Man and Elasti-Girl in Arcudi's run, and Kupperberg's had Larry Trainor as well.

If you haven't actually read any of the other runs we are going to have a failure to communicate here.